American killed during Palestinian knife attacks identified

BOSTON -- An 18-year-old man from Sharon, Massachusetts was killed during an attack in the West Bank Thursday, CBS Boston reports.

A Facebook post by the American Jewish Committee identified the victim as Ezra Schwartz.

Ezra Schwartz was an 18-year-old who was spending his gap year in Israel when he was killed."He was a sweetheart of a guy," said Debbie Sussman, the camp director of the summer youth camp where Schwartz had been employed.
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Schwartz, an American citizen, graduated from Maimonides High School in 2015 and was spending a gap year in Israel, the school confirmed.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those Israelis and Americans murdered in this horrific attack," a spokesperson for the Consulate General of Israel to New England said in a public statement.